THE POPULAR LINE OF THE LARGE HOMELAND AND THE UNIT OF THE CHURCH: RAFAEL TELLO IN THE PREPARATION AND RECEPTION OF THE MEDELLIN DOCUMENT

Abstract

This article deals with one of the privileged areas in the theological reception of the Second Vatican Council in Argentina. It is based on a recent edition of texs of the expert team meetings of the Episcopal Pastoral Commission of the years 1968 and 1969 on the preparation and reception of the Medellin Documents. It rescues the un-derstanding of Latin America as a set of independent nations integrated in a Great Homeland following the perspective of Rafael Tello, whose thinking has aroused spe-cial interest in the Pontificate of Pope Franciscus with whom they agree in the assess-ment of popular Catholicism in order to the unity of Latin American culture.